https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dbmnj-a361d7 On the cult of the entrepreneur. Alex Gourevitch talks to us about the "special kinds of assholes we get in our economy" and the dangers of the heroic capitalist icon. How does the earlier ideal of meritocracy differ from…
Read More /57/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 1 ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-egcub-a2573c The big 2018 populism discussion. We trash mainstream interpretations of populism (hiya, Cas Mudde) and debate the merits and demerits of 'left populism'. Thatcher, Clinton and Blair are today thought of as anti-populists, but what if they demonstrate many…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5svh2-9fdc1f We discuss Nervous States with its author: How has debate became so angery!1!! and fractious? Why don't we trust institutions any more -- or better, which institutions do we still trust and why? How has war increasingly encroached onto peace?…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s6mtu-99a3a4 In which we ask whether political consumerism is still a thing. We chart its course from 90s Adbusters-style anti-branding, to 2000s ethical consumerism, through to today's woke outrage economy. Has commodification and cynicism overwhelmed all consumer activism? Plus, we…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6kgxr-987bc9 The third in our Neoliberal Breakdown series. In which we discuss the late Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, 10 years on. Does his analysis still hold? The mood music of the time - the age of 'TINA' and the end of…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ccccx-976109 In which we discuss the work of the late Domenico Losurdo, especially his brilliant Liberalism: A Counter-History. Part of an ongoing series on the contradictions of liberalism, we debate whether Losurdo is right to point to liberalism's complicity with slavery,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-asd99-96e754 In which we lay the liberal establishment down on the shrink's sofa. It's a systematic analysis of liberal derangement: of the inability to accept, explain, or respond to the breakdown of the current order. Why can't the liberal establishment accept that…
Read More /44/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome (N.O.B.S.)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wfz5p-9396e3 In which we try to understand why it's not the extremes, but the centre, that has given up on democracy. David Adler talks to us about his research, and we learn about the centrist tribes: elites, anti-elite populists, and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-44j6f-90f036 In which we unpick the legacies of 1968 and all that: political fragmentation, the loss of authority, the cult of youth.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dncc6-8d3053 In which we debate the 'equal opportunities revolution': how race & gender has changed, in the workplace & beyond
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